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how to use cron to play sounds

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johndog

johndog

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Apr 17, 2001
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Hi,
I am interested in using cron as a type of alarm on my Sparc 5 running Solaris 8. I know how to set it up so that it will do a certain task at a given time, but I am not sure how to make it execute a sound file. Any tips?
 
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Run every five (5) minutes this Demo sound
to run this demo you have to be root

#min hr day mon weekday command
05 * * * * /usr/demo/SOUND/sound/laugther.au
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Farah regal
good luck
"think twice and hit enter once"
 
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Path should be:

/usr/demo/SOUND/sounds Adam F
Solaris System Administrator
 
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